automata The House of Automata is a treasure-trove of both charming mechanical characters Popkin

art See vintage punk flyers and ephemera on the "Art Punk Kill" instagram Popkin

archeology Meet Jobbe Wijnen, a "pull-tab archeologist" Popkin

Art and Design "Tihngs" is a wonderful curation of unique antiques Popkin

retro Pre-internet analog Dash Buttons Andrea James

toys One man's million dollar Hot Wheels collection David Pescovitz

music Boring office workers perform epic orchestral tune on typewriters Thom Dunn

meta Meta moment: A Barbie line inspired by Greta Gerwig's 'Barbie' Rusty Blazenhoff

History Gallery of vintage OS desktop screenshots Rob Beschizza

bugs Podcast about the U.S. National Tick Collection Popkin

video games Duke Nukem remaster slammed for use of AI art Grant St. Clair

mad MAD's Mort Drucker back on newsstands Bob Knetzger

wealth disparity Idle rich baffled by poor people's distaste for dangerous, low-paying jobs Mark Frauenfelder

Comics Massive collection of every single DC comic book from 1934-2014 to be auctioned Ruben Bolling

music 'Bohemian Rhapsody' was first called 'Mongolian Rhapsody' per Freddie Mercury's personal notes Rusty Blazenhoff

architecture Mark the 130th anniversary of the Chicago World's Fair by reading "The Devil in the White City" this summer Jennifer Sandlin

Japan What is the deal with Japan's smile merchants? Matt Alt

books Big book of Iain M. Banks' drawings of The Culture Rob Beschizza

special effects Watch "The Incredible Shrinking Man" (1957) for free on the Internet Archive Mark Frauenfelder

television Buy the "Cheers" bar. Or buy the original Batman and Robin costumes from the 1960s. Ruben Bolling